MySQL™: The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database 12 Bloomberg.com 17 Aug 02 ”Oracle, IBM, Microsoft May Lose Business to Free Database Software MySQL” ComputerWorld 11 Feb 03 McNealy: ...if you want to save more money, make the default database MySQL. It's free, it's bundled, you've got the whole open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo and Google can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly there's a huge chunk of your operations you could run on it as well. San Francisco Chronicle 14 Aug 02 Some major corporations, including 7-Eleven, Deutsche Telekom and Amazon.com, are migrating to Linux servers to take advantage of low- cost, open-source versions of data management software such as MySQL. Copyright 2003 MySQL AB